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Cleanup continues in flooded communities around Lake Ontario

The water has receded, but Edgemere Drive is still closed to through traffic due to debris and flood damage.
Veronica Volk
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WXXI News
The water has receded, but Edgemere Drive is still closed to through traffic due to debris and flood damage.
The water has receded, but Edgemere Drive is still closed to through traffic due to debris and flood damage.
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WXXI News
The water has receded, but Edgemere Drive is still closed to through traffic due to debris and flood damage.

On Tuesday, high water levels and winds caused flooding on Edgemere Drive in Greece. Though the water has receded, the cleanup continues.

Karen Marsh is wearing pink canvas gloves as she wrestles with debris in her yard on Edgemere Drive.

Another flood has residents on Edgemere Drive in Greece thinking about relocating.

She says she left her house at 9:30 the morning of the flood, the street was clear.

"Came back an hour and a half later and my entire home had water all the way around it. It’s not something I would want for anyone."

The water on Edgemere has since receded, but left behind are truckloads of sand and dirt, debris from the lake, and garbage. Marsh says between the 2017 floods and this, she and her husband have discussed leaving the area.

"We’re definitely thinking about maybe doing something different in the future."

And Marsh isn’t the only one. Her neighbor, Cathy Resnick, is also fed up with the flooding.

"I don’t know if I can do this year after year."

Marsh and Resnick blame new lake level management for the continued flooding, calling it a man-made disaster.

In response to this week's flooding, the governor announced a plan to build back shoreline communities in more resilient ways, but there is no plan in place to change water level management on the federal level.

Copyright 2019 WXXI News

Veronica Volk is the Great Lakes Reporter/Producer for WXXI News, exploring environmental and economic issues, water, and wildlife throughout the region for radio, television, and the web.
Veronica Volk
Veronica Volk is a Reporter/Producer for WXXI News. She comes from WFUV Public Radio, where she began her broadcasting career as a reporter covering the Bronx, and the greater New York City area. She later became the Senior Producer of WFUV’s weekly public affairs show, Cityscape. Originally from Ocean County, New Jersey, Veronica got her B.A. in Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, concentrating on Media, Culture, and Society.